depute
verb (used with object)
to appoint as one's substitute, representative, or agent.
deputing
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present participleof depute.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Amid fresh cries of "Shame!" irate M. P.'s exacted a promise that there be no "deputing."
From Time Magazine Archive
By deputing to these clans the conduct of all important matters relating to war, the Fujiwara eventually lost their high position and influence.
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio
But the ancient view, on which instructions are founded, made the deputy the agent of the deputing power, and much French history turns on it.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville
This resulted in Dost Mahomed sending his son and heir-apparent, Sardar Ghulam Haidar Khan, to Peshawar, and deputing him to act as his Plenipotentiary in the negotiations.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh
The desire to uphold the supremacy of the deputing power over the deputed, of the constituent over his member, was distinctly part of the great literary inheritance common to them all.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by Figgis, John Neville
